Eurasia · ISO 639-3 lao · Glottocode laoo1244
Lao
Lao adds a Tai-Kadai language with its own Lao script and a source record spanning three countries.
- Language family
- Tai-Kadai
- Likely script
- Lao (Laoo)
- Source status
- not endangered
- Macroarea
- Eurasia
- Source country codes
- KH · LA · TH
- Reference point
- 19.000, 102.460
Open research question
How do regional writing practice, standardisation and cross-border multilingualism differ in the sources?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.